Re: Melb.Australia Rolling stock

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
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> Press releases suggest doing there own thing, mainly because of
> affiliations with different rollingstock manufacturers.
>
> The total disaster is that all predictions are for single-deck trains.
> While it is comprehensible that a UK company (with infrastructure not
quite
> modified to hold dd trains) would feel that 'if we don't have them in the
> mother land, those ruddy colonials shouldn't need them'; a French company
> inheriting a line with modified clearances shouldn't hesitate.
>
> --
> Regards
> Roderick Smith
> Rail News Victoria Editor
>
Rod,

I think the problems with double deckers in Melbourne is that having only 2
doors each side, it  proves to be slow loading when compared to a Comeng.

Whilst I guess Sydney hasn't found this a problem it is here.

(Personally I would like to see more 4D's).

Bob.